Irene Rickman Annie Banham remembers an indomitable spirit who dedicated her life to making the world a better place. Namely, Irene Rickman, life member of Birmingham Clarion Singers, lifelong member of the Communist Party in […]

Margaret Rose Having joined the Communist Party in 1951, Margaret Rose become the long-term Area Secretary in Aberdeen, for much of the time as a part-time worker. She was especially devoted to building Communist Party […]

Helen Rosenthal Born in June 1949, of Jewish background, she was the daughter of Phyllis and Harold Rosenthal, the latter of which was an music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera and the […]

Jack and Harry Rosenberg The Rosenbergs were Cockney Jews, Jack born in early 1917 and Harry in 1919. The brothers were active in the Hackney Workers Sports Club from 1933 and possibly before that the Clarion Cycle […]

Jim Riordan James William Riordan was born on the 10th October 1936 and came from a working class family in Portsmouth. He attended the Southern Grammar School for Boys. When on a Russian studies degree […]

Duncan Rees Born in 1953, Rees was a member of the Communist Party’s Peace Advisory committee from 1975. Anational council member of CND, he was an activist in Cardiff and Liverpool. Elected general secretary of […]

John Roberts (Jack Russia) Born on the 1st May 1899 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Caernarvonshire, the son of John Roberts senior, a miner, and Mary Jones, the daughter of a blacksmith from Harlech, Roberts was brought […]

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Chapter 5: “Peaceably, If We Can – Forcibly, If We Must”: trades unions, the working class and Chartism in Derbyshire in the struggle for economic and political liberty 1 The Birth of the Charter (1839) [...]